Lovely Rain, Deadly Rain song from WOTW story

LOVELY RAIN, DEADLY RAIN



 VERSE ONE

QUIET LIKE A WHISPER, THEY'RE BEGINNING TO DROP 
THEY FALL FROM THE DARK CLOUDS AND YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM STOP
FALL TO THE DUSTY EARTH FROM THE BLUE OF THE SKY 
BRINGING FORTH NEW LIFE TO SPRING UP AND DIE.

 VERSE TWO

RAIN ON THE ROOFTOPS AND RAIN ON THE GROUND 
FAT SILVER DROPLETS, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SOUND 
GATHERING MOMENTUM AS THE THUNDER ROLLS ON
WASHING AWAY FOOTPRINTS TILL THE TRACES ARE GONE.

 CHORUS:

 RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH
 THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH
 BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP 
 A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.

 VERSE THREE

IN THE MIDNIGHT, IT'S MAGIC AND IN THE MORNING, IT'S SWEET 
SPLASHING IN MUDDY POOLS FOR THE BABY'S BARE FEET 
LIFE GIVING WATER FOR THE FARMER'S DRY FIELDS
SUCH A GIFT FROM THE HEAVENS THAT YOU KNOW GOD IS REAL.

 VERSE FOUR 

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, MEMORIES OF LOVE 
COLD ICY SURPRISES AS THEY FALL FROM ABOVE 
HIDING UNDER TALL TREES AND OLD BARNS AND SUCH 
OH THE STORMS OF MY CHILDHOOD, HOW I LOVED THEM SO MUCH!

 CHORUS:

RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH 
THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH 
BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP
A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.


 VERSE FIVE

 NOW THE OLD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE GREAT FLOODS OF THE EARTH
 I'VE HEARD ALL OF THE TRAGEDIES SINCE THE TIME OF MY BIRTH
 BRINGING SUCH MISERY AND BRINGING SUCH PAIN 
 LIFE AND DEATH COMING DOWN IN THE FORM OF THE RAIN.

 VERSE SIX 

BUT TONIGHT IN YOUR SWEET ARMS WHILE THE LIGHTNING IS BRIGHT
AND THE THUNDER, IT FINDS US AS WE HIDE IN THE NIGHT 
I FORGET ALL THE WARNINGS ABOUT DANGER AND FLOOD 
AND WE LAUGH IN THE RAINFALL AND IT'S TOUCH FEELS SO GOOD.

 CHORUS:

 RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH
 THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH
 BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP
 A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.


 EXTRA VERSE TO END

 BUT TONIGHT IN YOUR SWEET ARMS AS I HOLD YOU SO TIGHT
 I REVEL IN THE STORM CLOUDS AND I DREAM IN THE NIGHT
 LOVELY RAIN IS NOT THREATENING BUT I'M STILL CARRIED AWAY
 LOVELY RAIN IS NOT THREATENING BUT I'M STILL CARRIED AWAY

 LOVELY RAIN, AND YOUR SWEET LOVE ... IT STILL SWEEPS ME AWAY.


 ©BY VOO
 SEPT 27, 2005 
 1 A.M. 

All I Want

All I Want

Young and ancient in my heart

I yearn to feel alive

I long to feel the touch of love

And know the reasons why

Why life is sad and days are long

Just something to get through

I need to know why I was born

And I want to know the truth

Friends? I never had a friend

At least someone I could trust

I thought I had one who loved me

But all it was was lust

My innocence was lured away

My trusting soul rejected

My emotions killed with cruel disdain

And my heart cries were neglected

All day I search the sky for God

All night I cringe in fear

My sleep is stolen by nightmares

And I feel no angel near

I walk the streets alone and cold

Even in the sunlight's glow

And laugh my bitter hardened laugh

That hides a broken soul

Too young! they tell me, you're too young

To feel like you should die

You have no reason to feel this way

To have sorrow in your eyes

But they don't know, they cannot know

How my heart longs to fly free

They see my youth, my unwrinkled brow

But I know they don't see me

I reach a halting outstretched hand

Sometimes to others when

They slap my hand and I say then

I'll never reach again

This nothingness is heavy

This emptiness is full

How can I believe that kindness lives

When all I see is cruel?

My life is like a bottomless pit

I tumble down and down

In dream and shadow, falling, hopeless

And laughing like a clown

And all I want is for someone

To fill up this widening crack

For God to reach down from the sky

And pat me on the back.

©By Voo

May 27, 2005

 11:30 pm